tricks to draw

Drawing has always been up to very few people, in fact the drawing technique is a technique that needs years and years of follow-up and practice. However, there are other people who are born with an artistic spirit and are capable of making fascinating illustrations.

In this post we have not only come to talk to you about drawing or the art of drawing, whatever you want to call it, but also to give you some tips and tricks so that, in this way, the drawing will not be a problem for you. If you want to learn to draw, we encourage you to stay tuned or attentive, because you will surely be interested in knowing what lies behind a good drawing.

The drawing

The drawing is defined neither more nor less as the technique or practice of drawing. When we draw, we are recreating a kind of image on a support that is usually paper or canvas. Drawing was born with the aim of being a mechanism for graphic expression and is part of what we know as visual art. The drawing has not only been part as a mechanism of interpretation, but of communication. And to know this term we have to go back thousands and thousands of years, especially in the prehistoric era, when cavemen drew a series of symbols to communicate.

Undoubtedly, the drawings came into the world with the aim of recreating spoken language in a much more silent, concise and summarized language. A language that, as we have mentioned before, has transcended the history of humanity and has managed to appeal to many feelings, thoughts, emotions and ideas. That is why the drawing is divided into several parts and each one has different characteristics. Next, we explain them briefly.

drawing types

Artistic

The artistic drawing is a drawing where all the emotions of the artist are captured on a canvas. During the drawing creation process, different parts and elements are carried out for its development: perspective and materials. It is a type of drawing that requires the use of different materials, therefore, there is a large category of pencils or markers that are designed for any other type of drawing. In artistic drawing, the graphic line is taken as the main reference, as it is very important.

Coach

Technical drawing is used especially to create representations of different spaces. For example, they are very common to see in the architecture sector or in topographical designs. They are drawings that require a visual value where perspective is very present. Therefore, the draftsman must have sufficient knowledge to know each and every one of the dimensions of an object. It is also highlighted that technical drawing is classified in four forms or typologies: natural, continuous, industrial and defined.

The drawing itself can also be classified into four other subgroups: conception drawing, definition drawing, manufacturing drawing or finally, industrial drawing.

Tricks to learn to draw

There are a series of tricks or tips that can help you improve your drawing technique, some of them may seem obvious to you, but they are not really taken into account when you are starting as an illustrator and they are very important, since they form part of the process and development as an artist.

Watch tutorials and learn

It may not be a very interesting or important trick to you, but 85% of what you draw today is 99% of everything you documented yesterday. This phrase is very important to apply, since very few people opt for the channel of information or inspiration. We recommend that before you start drawing, keep your urges to yourself and arm yourself with patience before watching a series of videos that will help you get inspired and get started. Above all, find out how to start in this world, what guidelines you should follow and what advice is the most important to overcome.

That is why we encourage you to start your search on You Tube, you will find thousands and thousands of tutorials and videos from illustrators who also had a start and will advise you in the best way.

The time is gold

Time is a mechanism that is part of our life and that is everything. First of all time goes. And that is why it is necessary that you dedicate time to the day, approximately 3 to 4 hours every day. They do not have to be followed, you can do rest intervals and continue your exercises hours later.

What we try to advise you is that you never stop drawing, because when we stop a process that has been linear, our mind becomes more comfortable than normal and tends not to procrastinate. For this reason, drawing is an exercise where an evolution is needed, and that evolution takes time and hours of training.

Crea

Create is a word that derives from the meaning of building something that has not been done before or at least trying. This is what happens when you start in the world of art, the artist tends to create. To do this, you have to experiment and leave your fears behind. Fear has always been something that has not accompanied the best artists. Therefore, we advise you not to be afraid to create and experiment, try to do all the things that come to your mind (artistically speaking) and launch yourself to discover what you are capable of doing, only then will you know what type of drawing is the one that best suits you.

Get inspired

Inspiration is the best friend of artists, because it is everything that makes them create and achieve new goals. But to get inspired you have to get informed, and it's not that we want to write you rhymes for fun, but we want you to document yourself in other artists who do work both different and similar to your ideas. There are artists who have found sources of inspiration in projects or in elements around them that have nothing to do with drawing, they simply transform thought and turn it into new ideas, adapting them to the same medium.

Visualize your environment

The environment is everything that surrounds us. For this, it is important that we take it into account and visualize it, because we may find answers in it. Many artists when they start do not know what to draw or where to start. It is important that you leave the canvas or the sheet for a moment and look out the window or look around you, wherever you are.

Another piece of advice similar to this is that you go to an environment where you feel comfortable for different reasons and capture that feeling in a new way of finding yourself. This detail is very important because it will be part of the process of your evolution, and remember that an evolution is like a circle that never ends. When you need to go back, go back to where you were.

Don't be discouraged

As we have mentioned before, drawing is a process. There will be days that you will want to draw without stopping, your mind will be full of ideas and there will be days that you enter in what many artists call a mental block or mental breakdown. Do not be discouraged if that happens because it is normal, and in fact it is another stage. What happens is that since it is a stage that does not benefit us, we do not usually associate it as a stage but rather as a nightmare.

When you have a mental block go back to the same process and ask yourself how you managed to move forward. In that answer will be all the processes you had to go through and it never hurts to remember them again and create new questions and answers. Without a doubt, do not worry about this phase, then only the best remains.

your best library

They say that a book can change the world, and not wait because there are books that have even changed lives. That is why we advise you to read and document yourself also from a more physical medium. There is nothing like opening a book for the first time, because it is the first that you will always remember. Therefore, search the internet for the most appropriate books and go without thinking or pseudonymously to your nearest library or to your nearest store and buy it. 

Research, read and then draw, there is nothing better like that.

Conclusion

Drawing is an artistic technique that has been carried out for decades. So much so that we have to go back to the beginning of the history of humanity to know its first steps. Therefore, we hope that these tips that we have suggested have helped you to learn and have encouraged you to want to fully enter this world.

Every day there are more artists who connect with drawing and transform it into true works of art. You can be one of them, just keep evolving and never stop drawing.